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This 2013 file photo shows marchers in the Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade. This year, before the parade, Long Beach Pride and the City Clerk’s office will host a free same-sex wedding ceremony.

LONG BEACH – It’s beginning to look a lot like gay pride.

The rainbow colored flags are hung with care along Ocean Boulevard, signaling that thousands of onlookers will soon be there.

LONG BEACH – Long Beach Pride hopes new rules regarding how patrons can buy alcoholic beverages at this weekend’s festival will make the event more enjoyable than last year’s, which officials had called chaotic and a fiasco for people who tried to purchase beer.

The Long Beach Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival takes place from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on Shoreline Drive between Shoreline Village Drive and Alamitos Avenue at Marina Green and Rainbow Lagoon Park.

Stephanie Loftin, right, and her client inside the Long Beach Courthouse minutes after a judge dismissed his lewd conduct case because it was discriminatory enforcement and prosecution. Photo: Courtesy of Reba Birmingham.